PRINCIPLES OF POPULATION HEALTH: POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the major dilemmas and tradeoffs involved in attempts to improve healthcare delivery, utilization, outcomes, and quality. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the role of health care as one of many determinants of population health Audience: Graduate 3. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand how efficient delivery of healthcare services is hindered by different forms of market failure and how the attainment of value-based cost-effective health care depends on the reimbursement and insurance incentives designed to encourage it. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination, and understanding of the use and misuse of data in the development of evidence health policy. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the major dilemmas and tradeoffs involved in attempts to improve healthcare delivery, utilization, outcomes, and quality. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand the role of health care as one of many determinants of population health Audience: Graduate 3. Apply principles of population health sciences to understand how efficient delivery of healthcare services is hindered by different forms of market failure and how the attainment of value-based cost-effective health care depends on the reimbursement and insurance incentives designed to encourage it. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination, and understanding of the use and misuse of data in the development of evidence health policy. Audience: Graduate